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A feeble dart short of its mark.
A feeble dart short of its mark.
With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Our content
Is our best having.
Our content
Is our best having.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
They are safe in their number and their close array.
They are safe in their number and their close array.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?